Personally as a gay guy that trains the absolute last thing on my mind while training is sex and I'm pretty appalled and creeped out by that documentary in general; There really is a big creepy eroticized wrestling subculture in the gay world and a lot of the attention is turning to Jits, so if the guy was posting on matbattle or something then I really can't blame them.

The homophobia thing is something I've never had much of a problem with personally other than my eyes hurting a little bit from them rolling so often. Then again even though I'm open about who I am I'm also pretty "straight-acting" so people tend to get to know me pretty well before they find out about that part so it is much less of an issue by then.

On the other hand I do have some reservations about bringing along my femme, Leonardo Dicaprio lookalike boyfriend to practice out of fear that there might be some 'accidents' during partner drills or something like that. I kind of hope he'll take up Wushu instead.

No one ever says anything when I turn up to get changed with my back bruised or covered in abrasions. Only time someone asked anything was when I had a V of bruising from my shouders to my waist, they asked what did it, I replied Bullwhip. I guess people aren't so bothered about S & M stuff as they are about homosexuality for some reason. No logic there though.

Rafe, do a search on here for his earlier work. He does not seem to be able to split homoeroticsm and grappling. He finds it erotic therefore everyone does. I've not watched this clip, but I guess there is some of that coming through. Saying that, banning someone from a club for being a certain sexual orientation is crap.

Pretty disappointed that he considers this a "wrestling" film, as I feel the homoeroticism basically overtakes anything about wrestling the film shows. When i was reading the synopsis, I thought we were gonna get a well done documentary about wrestling in general, including some of the seedier parts, but that was more or less false advertisement after watching the trailer and some more of his clips, it seems that's just the platform for his own biased opinion.("GRAPPLING IS GAY, HUR HUR HUR!!!")

So pretty much gotta agree with Raph about this being a disservice to gay grapplers, as well as grapplers in general. :/

You see, this is the problem with most of you, you watched a few other teasers and still have NOT watched the entire 2-hour documentary. You make judgments on a few trailers. The film is being received well by both serious gay grapplers and straight grapplers. There is not a single gay grappler I know who gets off while grappling in a public competition or training course, so everytime you say something like that you sound VERY stupid. Of course they don't, they're there to wrestle just like everyone else.

But yes, there are guys, A LOT of guys, that in their PRIVATE time get off to watching or play wrestling, gay AND Straight. And there are MANY in your class who do it and will never tell you. It's no different than messing around with your girlfriend during foreplay. It doesn't damage the sport, it does nothing more than show another complex part of human nature. Deal with it.

You see how sick homophobia is, you make judgments before watching something. And yes, homophobia is close to being labeled as a "mental disorder" by the AMA because it is anger and hatred toward a perceived notion.

^Yeah but not every one of us wrestles to exert some kind of latent sexual urges, get over it. Not a single one of us is insulting gay grapplers, we're insulting the notion that grappling in itself is homoerotic, which does a disservice to grapplers across the board, gay or hetero.

I don't give a **** about someone's orientation, what I was looking for is an in-depth docu on wrestling(of major interest being how moden pro wrestling is viewed by actual wrestlers), but even that segment had all those stupid gay jokes thrown in with the action figures.

No, you have NO right on this planet to tell ANYONE what THEY think is homoerotic, or not erotic. YOU do not decide what can or can't turn other people on. I am CERTAIN you would have no problem, if girls were to say, WHICH THEY DO, that it turns them on to watch guys fighting in a ring. You just can't handle it if it comes from guys.